NASA Astronauts Kick Off Boeing Starliner Flight Test

Six astronauts floating inside International Space Station

Starliner CFT astronauts Sunita Williams and Barry “Butch” Wilmore, in blue flight suits, joined the International Space Station Expedition 71 crew on June 6 for about two weeks of joint operations.

Credit: NASA TV
Getting Boeing’s first crewed CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station was a major step in the company’s 12-year program to develop a low-Earth-orbit transportation system for NASA and other customers. But it will take some luck for NASA to pick the Boeing Starliner to fly the...
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